Quotes About Tradition

A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

A Scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath, and everything else he can lay his hands on.

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.

There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.

A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

By twice born men a widow must not be appointed to ,cohabit with any other ,than her husband , for they who appoint ,her to another ,man , will violate the eternal law.

It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.

No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.

The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.

I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family.

A man who doesn't drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.

You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

A man should be religious, not superstitious.